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"Erie's Think Tank for Community Progress" Educate and inform the whole mass of people … They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty. - Thomas Jefferson

Erie County Technical School, located in Erie, Pa., is the career and technical education department for more than 10 school districts in Erie County, Pennsylvania. It offers more than 20 career-training programs to high school sophomores, juniors and seniors. The programs include courses in communication, such as commercial art, computer information systems, drafting and design, graphic communications, and networking technologies. It has courses in construction trades and facilities engineering. Its human services programs, include child care, cosmetology, culinary arts, health assistant, and tourism and hospitality management. It provides manufacturing programs, such as electrical engineering, electronics, metal fabrication, plastics technology, and tool and die. Erie County Technical School also offers programs in auto body repair and automotive technologies.

Corry Area Middle/High School, located in Cory, Pa., is part of the Corry Area School District. It enrolls more than 1,200 students from grades seven through 12. The curricular areas include English, mathematics, social science, literature, science, biology, chemistry, American history, United States government and politics, health and physical education, music, art and religion. Its facilities include playing fields, sports area that houses shower rooms, lockers and weight room, and swimming pool, cafeteria, visual arts facility and a computer graphics lab. Its extracurricular programs include more than 25 clubs; literary publications and performing arts groups and various sports, such as football, basketball and softball.